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EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

October 7, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

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atrazine, drinkingwater, ecosytems, frogs, health, midwest, pesticide, pesticides, simplesteps, toxics

Good news: today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States.  The review will take about a year...

Poisoning the Well: atrazine is scary, and it’s everywhere

August 23, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

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atrazine, drinkingwater, endocrinedisrupter, EPA, midwest, watershed

Years ago, when I first moved to the Midwest (Columbus, Ohio, to be more precise) from California one of the first things I noticed was the corn.  Not corn fields, mind you, although there were plenty of those, but corn...

Alligators to the rescue

June 2, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

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alligators, antibiotic, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, wildlife

Last week I linked to one good reason for saving endangered plants and wildlife: wonder.  But there are more practical reasons as well.  As I've noted before, not least of these reasons is the fact that many of the...

Global Warming--Now, With Mercury!

March 1, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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arctic, beakedwhale, globalwarming, mercury, seaice, wildlife

For years, scientists have been concerned about the substantial increase of mercury concentrations in Arctic marine mammals such as polar bears, beluga whales, and seals.  In some places in Canada, for example, levels of mercury in the tissue of...

Andrew Wetzler
Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
Chicago
I grew up in New York City but spent my summers canoeing and hiking in...
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